Ginga is a simple—yet energetic—country girl, living with her father far from the capital city of the empire in ancient China. When she learns of an opportunity to become a concubine of the young new Emperor, with the possibility of becoming his head wife in charge of all of the other wives, Ginga convinces her father to let her go. Once there, she meets all of the other potential head wives, each of whom have various reasons for being there. All of them must learn to read and write, learn the history of their country, and learn the proper mannerisms for being in the royal court. Ginga's enthusiasm tends to get her in trouble more often than not, but it works to her advantage when they learn that the former emperor's head wife, who is not the mother of the current emperor, is plotting treachery against the new emperor, and that a rebellion is headed toward the capital.
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| Directing | Hisayuki Toriumi | Director |
| Camera | Nobuo Koyama | Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Makiko Futaki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Osamu Tanabe | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Noriko Moritomo | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nagisa Miyazaki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Toyoaki Emura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shigehito Tsuji | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinsuke Terasawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Motoko Hiraishi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masaaki Endou | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Junko Saida | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Morohashi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Noriko Ootake | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroshi Shimizu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hirofumi Nakata | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroomi Yamakawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Toshiya Niidome | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Otsuka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuya Tsurumaki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mitsuo Iso | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Atsuko Otani | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takao Yoshino | Key Animation |
| Art | Yuji Ikeda | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Katsuya Kondo | Character Designer |
| Sound | Haruhiko Maruya | Music |
| Visual Effects | Katsuya Kondo | Animation Director |
| Editing | Takeshi Seyama | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Hirotsugu Kawasaki | Key Animation |
| Writing | Ken'ichi Sakemi | Novel |
| Writing | Akira Miyazaki | Screenplay |
